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- From: paul.westley@uttsbbs.uucp (Paul Westley)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: RE: MILLENNIUM RECHARGEAB
- Message-ID: <4760.25.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:07:00 GMT
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- Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
- Reply-To: paul.westley@uttsbbs.uucp (Paul Westley)
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- -> >More importantly, the rechargeable batteries seem to have died down
- -> >after just abut 8-10 charges! Even if I charge it for many hours,
- -> >Anyone else have a similar experience?
- -> >
- -> I have to disagree, I bought a set of Millennium AA's about 2 months
- -> ago and have charge them eover 40 times, they still last about 8-10
- -> hours in my walkman. Besides they only take 3 hours to charge, which
- -> is a great advantage
-
- This type of rechargeable battery (as opposed to the new type they are
- starting to put in laptops) has a "memory". If you don't completely
- drain it before recharging, it won't charge back to full power. To
- drain it properly, you could get a discharger gadget - it costs a couple
- of bucks - just a piece of wire that attaches to each end of the battery
- with a heat disperser in the middle, or, and I'm not sure but I think it
- should work as well, just leave the cassette on fast forward overnight,
- then try charging the batteries again.
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